DJ Orion

Notes about digitalizing vinyls


August 10, 2007

The full entry of Vinyl Digitalizing can be found here. Please add the possible comments there.

- The first 10 tracks are now in digital form. Whee. The first digitalized track was BT – Flaming June (BT & PvD mix).

- Grado DJ200 sound quality is amazing. I’m VERY satisfied with it. It’s worth every cent.

- Before starting to record, I tried a couple of programs:
* Sample Manager for normalizing. Very good, but very expensive. No use, sorry.
* Final Vinyl. Only for use with iGriffin products. No thanks.
* Analogue Ripper had nice features – iTunes support, track splitting etc. However, the user interface was horrible. The price, 30 dollars, was ok, but the usability was that poor that I decided not to pay.

- Finally I ended up using Audacity. The normalizing feature was very poor so no normalizing until I find a better software. Recommendations?

- As I mentioned in the comments of the previous entry, I decided to make two copies of the tracks: One .wav copy for playing and archiving purposes and .mp3 copy for portable music players and iTunes music library.

- I need a new hard drive.

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